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Title: Man's Redemption of Man
A Lay Sermon
Author: William Osler
Release Date: July 31, 2011 [EBook #36926]
Language: English
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MAN'S
REDEMPTION
OF MAN
A Lay Sermon,
McEwan Hall Edinburgh,
Sunday July 2nd
1910
BY
WILLIAM OSLER
LONDON
CONSTABLE & CO. LTD
1913
Note.—This address was delivered at a service held for the students of the University of Edinburgh, in connection with the Edinburgh meeting of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
And a man shall be as an hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place; as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
And the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his days.
(Isaiah.)
To man there has been published a triple gospel—of his soul, of his goods, of his body. Growing with his growth, preached and professed in a hundred different ways in various ages of the world, these gospels represent the unceasing purpose of his widening thoughts.
The gospel of his relation to the powers unseen has brought sometimes hope, too often despair. In a wide outlook on the immediate and remote effects of the attempts to establish this relation, one event discredits the great counsel of Confucius (who realized what a heavy yoke religion might be) to keep aloof from spiritual beings. Surviving the accretions of twenty centuries, the life and immortality brought to light by the gospel of Christ, remain the earnest desire of the best portion of the race.
The gospel of his goods—of man's relation to his fellow men, is written in blood on every